Inside the iPod touch

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iFixit very kindly provided MacNN with some hi-res photos of the tear-down of the iPod touch. The To...

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iPod Touchs Display Not as Good as iPhones

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Photos from Macworld, comparing the iPod Touch’s display to the iPhone’s:

The touch is noticeably darker, lacks fine detail, and blows out dark “highlights” into the negative.

I didn’t expect this — I figured the Touch would use the exact same display. I wonder if they just got a bad iPod Touch, or if this is evident across the board?

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iPod Touchs Display Not as Good as iPhones

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Photos from Macworld, comparing the iPod Touch’s display to the iPhone’s:

The touch is noticeably darker, lacks fine detail, and blows out dark “highlights” into the negative.

I didn’t expect this — I figured the Touch would use the exact same display.

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iPod touch photos

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Apple's new iPod touch began shipping to its retail stores (as well as customers) this weekend -- bu...

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Apple back to school promo

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Apple's back to school promo for college students is coming to an end this Sunday, September 16th. T...

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SoftRAID, Nisus Writer

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Videator 4.1 ($50) Vee-Jaying, movie-making and video processing application. This release uses new ...

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Why the Magnifying Glass Doesnt Work in Some
iPhone Web Apps

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Justin Williams:

We designed PocketTweets so that scaling isn?t necessary. Unfortunately, setting user-scaling to false is what is causing the magnifying glass to not work in <textarea> tags. Taking the user-scalable parameter out of the equation allows me to magnify as I please.

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Changing File Labels Outside The Finder

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Jewel Quest II for Mac

Macgamestore.com today announced the release of iWin's Jewel Quest II for Mac, the third title in th...

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Interesting Tidbits Gleaned From the iPod Touch
Features Guide

Notes from the PDF iPod Touch Features Guide:

p. 7: The screenshot from iTunes shows system version 1.1 for the iPod Touch. Presumably version 1.0 was the version of mobile OS X that shipped with the iPhones.

p. 10: The sleep/wake button is on the top left. On the iPhone, it’s top right. Wonder why they moved it? Also worth noting that on the iPod Touch, the headphone jack is on the bottom.

p. 13: You can double-click the Home button to bring up on-screen playback controls, even when the screen is locked. Nifty. But, unlike the iPhone, the Touch has no hardware volume buttons, and it doesn’t have a play/pause/next-track clicker on the headphone cable. That clicker is my very favorite thing about the iPhone’s music player; I think it’ll be a pain to use an iPod Touch that’s in your pocket. (AppleInsider notes that you can’t just plug iPhone headphones into an iPod Touch, either — the Touch doesn’t support the clicker.)

p. 16: iPod Touch supports several keyboard layouts: QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, QZERTY, and Japanese IME.

p. 17: Double-tap the space bar while typing to enter a period followed by a space. That shortcut isn’t available (yet?) on the iPhone.

p. 50: You really can’t add events in the Calendar app on the iPod Touch. Lame.

p. 52: You can, however, add and edit address book entries in the Contacts app.

p. 63: Support for closed captioning. The iPhone doesn’t (yet?) have this.

p. 65: Optional Debug Console for MobileSafari. The iPhone doesn’t (yet?) have this.

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